{"id":95074,"date":"2017-06-29T19:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=95074"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:27:40","slug":"union-minister-radha-urinates-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/union-minister-radha-urinates-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Radha urinates in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An undated picture of Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh urinating in public has put the BJP in a spot as the picture went viral on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister, however, defended himself, saying there was no urinal for long distances on National Highway 28 near Pipara when he wanted to relieve himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that his intention was not wrong, he said the photograph was of a dhaba (roadside eatery) on the NH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The photograph showed the minister urinating on a wall, believed to be in his home constituency Purvi Champaran (East Champaran), as two security personnel stood guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95075 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2-14.jpg\" alt=\"2-14\" width=\"670\" height=\"671\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Netizens trolled the minister for his act, saying it showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Swachch Bharat programme in poor light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The photograph was also shared on RJD\u2019s Twitter handle, with a sarcastic comment, \u201cAmid tight security, the Union minister of agriculture gives the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a boost, as he inaugurates an irrigation project in a drought-affected state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State BJP spokesperson, Rajib Ranjan, however, found nothing wrong in the minister\u2019s act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne cannot suppress nature\u2019s call for long. What do you do if you are travelling long distances and there are no public urinals on the way?\u201d he asked media, adding \u201cThere is absolutely nothing wrong in what the minister did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further said the photograph was \u201csix months to one year old\u201d as the minister\u2019s SUV had a red beacon, which the government had banned from May 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undated picture of Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh urinating in public has put the BJP in a spot as the picture went viral on social media on Thursday. The minister, however, defended himself, saying there was no urinal for long distances on National Highway 28 near Pipara when he wanted to relieve himself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[47936,582,47935,586,47934],"class_list":["post-95074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-agriculture-minister","tag-public","tag-radha-mohan-singh","tag-social-media","tag-union-minister-radha-urinates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/radhakrishnan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}